samba rename bug

[Eric Shubert]

Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 08:39 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
>> Craig White wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 18:29 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
>>>> Back in March I created this bug report: 
>>>> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6173
>>>>
>>>> That was on samba-3.0.33, which is the current version on CentOS5. I was 
>>>> notified today that 3.0 is no longer under maintenance. As it turns out, 
>>>> 3.2.x (the version in FC10) is also out of maintenance. The current 
>>>> stable release of samba is 3.4.0, released 7/3/09. FC11 is on 3.3.x. I'm 
>>>> getting a clear picture of who's the tortoise and who's the hare. ;) I 
>>>> expect that FC12 will have samba-3.4.x.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I'm wondering if by chance anyone's running 3.3 or 3.4 and can 
>>>> verify whether this bug still exists or not. If it does, I had a patch 
>>>> for the 3.0 source that I'll look into reworking and submitting to the 
>>>> 3.4 (preferrably) or 3.3 branch.
>>>>
>>>> The bug is really easy to test. See the bug report. I just don't have a 
>>>> recent version of samba operational yet, and don't want to waste any 
>>>> time on it if the bug's been fixed.
>>> ----
>>> I'm pretty sure that sernet.de has rpm's for RHEL/CentOS v5 (Volker is
>>> Sernet.de) that you can install without too much effort but yes, RHEL 5
>>> is still backporting security patches only to 3.0.33. Didn't that patch
>>> come from Volker?
>> I've no idea where 3.0.33 came from.
>> Thanks for the Volker reference. Have you used his packages at all? His 
>> site looks pretty professional, so I probably shouldn't be concerned.
>>
>> Now all I need to do is figure out how to migrate from 3.0 to 3.3 
>> smoothly. Any insight?
>>
>>> No, I've not installed any version other than Fedora 10/11 and
>>> RHEL/CentOS versions to test
>> Do you have 3.3 on FC11 you can do a test with? It's really simple. On a 
>> windows machine with N: (or whatever drive) mapped to a samba share, 
>> open a command prompt and execute the following commands:
>> N:\>echo test > testfile
>> N:\>attrib +r testfile
>> N:\>attrib testfile
>> A    R     N:\testfile
>> N:\>ren testfile testren
>> Access is denied.
>>
>> If you don't get the last reply, then the bug's fixed. If you get the 
>> denied message, then the bug lives on.
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> I don't have time, I am leaving for China today. My F11 is only a laptop
> and not a server...sorry
> 
> Volker is one of the samba team members
> 
> Craig
> 
> 

Thanks. Have a Great (Wall) Trip! :)

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-Eric 'shubes'